FORT WORTH, TX, February 15, 2012
/24-7PressRelease/ -- Calloway's Nursery is calling all Texas gardeners to join the garden center for its second educational Gardenfest event on Saturday, Feb. 25. Gardenfest is a full day of educational gardening presentations from local and national industry experts that is free to the gardening public held at select Calloway's Nursery locations in Arlington, Hurst, Flower Mound and Plano.
During this day-long event award-winning landscape designer and author, Scott Calhoun will share his design insights on how to beautify a garden with six plants or fewer. Chris Wiesinger will return this year to share his stories about heirloom bulbs. A limited number of books written by Calhoun and Wiesinger will be available for sale. Faith Savage of Syngenta Flowers will provide information on the meaning of color. Edible gardening expert, Frank Trevino, of Blue Label Herbs will show gardeners how to spice up their life with herb gardening tips on the specific varieties that perform well in Texas. Mark Chamblee, who is from the rose capitol of Texas - Tyler, will teach gardeners how to grow low-maintenance roses. Kim Treiber and Ron Newble will both share tips and tricks on how to design eye-catching container gardens.
"Last year's Gardenfest event was a resounding success, and we expect even greater attendance and participation this year with the stellar line-up of presenters," Kimberly Bird, Vice President of Retail Marketing said.
Gardenfest will begin at 9 a.m. and conclude at 6 p.m. at Calloway's Nursery locations on Cooper Street in south Arlington, Grapevine Highway in Hurst, Long Prairie in Flower Mound and Highway 121 in north Plano. For more information about Gardenfest, visit calloways.com/gardenfest-calloways.
Calloway's and Cornelius Nurseries is a 19-store garden center chain serving the Dallas, Fort Worth and Houston markets. The company strives to make gardening fun, easy and successful for customers by offering expert advice from Texas Certified Nursery Professionals; store environments that are educational and easy to shop; weekly gardening clincs that serve both novice and expert gardeners; displays and instructions to aid gardeners with design and color development in their yards; and a product selection of the best plant varieties available. For more information, visit http://www.mytexasgarden.com.
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